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Nokia is one of the leading mobile phone companies in the world. The multinational company sells mobile devices, smart phones and communication devices. Nokia's Internet services sector is called Ovi. This branch offers games, maps, media, messaging and music.

A portion of Nokia's resources goes to the development of future smartphones. The company continues to update Symbian OS-based phones with new models and software. Nokia migrated from Symbian to the Windows Phone 7 operating system in February 2011.

During the Windows Phone Summit on June 20, Microsoft announced Nokia would be replacing Bing Maps and providing mapping products for the new Windows Phone 8 platform. Nokia Maps developed NAVTEQ -- a leading provider of digital map and location-based content for mobile navigation devices, GPS car systems, web-based mapping apps and more.

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Nokia's share of the smartphone market has been in rapid decline for several years. While at the start of 2010 nearly 40% of smartphone owners used Nokia devices, the company's market share has plummeted to below 5%. A full 20% of Nokia's market shar...

Microsoft has gone ahead and made it official by slipping a $7.2 billion ring on Nokia's finger to acquire the Finnish company's phone business. The deal, which had been rumored for some time, puts that last big piece into place for Microsoft to have...

Nokia started as a paper company. It was 1865, and the mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a wood pulp mill next to the Tammerkoski Rapids in the southwest of Finland. A few years later, he opened a second mill, this one located on the banks ...

Microsoft's surprise deal to acquire Nokia's phone business for more than $7 billion in cash appears to have left investors cold. Microsoft stock dropped by more than 5% in early trading following the acquisition announcement late Monday night. The s...

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire Nokia's devices and services business, as well as license its patents and mapping services in a $7.2 billion deal. The transaction, expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 pending approva...

Nokia has launched Here Auto, a cloud-enhanced in-car navigation and infotainment platform, as well as a Here Auto companion app for smartphones. For a really simple explanation of what Here Auto is, think turn-by-turn navigation system coupled with ...

If you can't beat them, try to use their success against them. At least that seems to be Nokia's formula. Nokia's latest ad for the Lumia 925, above, parodies the style of an iPhone 5 ad from earlier this year, which focused on the device's camera, a...

Nokia finally unveiled its worst-kept-secret flagship Windows Phone, the Lumia 1020, on Thursday. We spent some time with the device, and even test-drove its jaw-dropping 41-megapixel camera. The Nokia Lumia 1020 doesn't feel like a camera when you h...

Nokia has officially unveiled the Nokia Lumia 1020, a Windows Phone with a 41-megapixel camera. The phone will be exclusive to AT&T in the United States, available July 26 for $299.99 with a two-year contract. Preorders begin July 16. Nokia CEO Steph...

Although the device is scheduled to be officially unveiled today, AT&T posted and then quickly hid several videos of the Nokia Lumia 1020 on its official YouTube channel. The 41-megapixel Windows 8 phone -- probably the most-leaked device in history ...

Foursquare unveiled a new app designed for feature phones on Tuesday, specifically targeting Nokia's range of Series 40 handsets. S40 is a software platform used on the Finnish company's line of mid-range feature phones, as well as on its Asha series...

Smartphones may comprise a majority of mobile-phone shipments worldwide, but a sizeable number of handset users still prefer basic feature phones. Nokia catered to the latter market on Wednesday by debuting two 3G-capable feature phones -- the 207 an...

Nokia announced Monday it would buy out Siemens' share of Nokia Siemens Networks for $2.2 billion, a move that jacked Nokia's stock price up more than 7%. The buyout of Siemens' 50% stake in NSN dissolves the joint venture, which was launched in 2007...

Grunting, dead-eyed and stiff -- this is how Nokia portrays iPhone users in its latest ad. Posted to YouTube on Friday, the video shows a horde of zombies that look suspiciously like overexposed flash photos (complete with pallid skin and red eyes) m...

It's been rumored that Nokia will bring its 41-megapixel PureView camera -- first seen in its 808 phone -- to its Lumia line of Windows Phones in a model codenamed "EOS." Those reports gained a little more veracity with the leak of a YouTube video th...

In the light of yesterday’s well-received unveiling of the new Nokia Lumia 925 flagship phone, we grabbed 15 minutes with Nokia’s VP of European Sales and Marketing, Chris Weber, and asked him where Nokia’s future lies. His response? Unequivocally in...

Nokia and Windows Phone have come a long way since launching their partnership and unveiling the first Windows Phones in 2011. Since then they've delivered significant new handsets and major mobile OS updates. On Tuesday in London the trend continued...

The Nokia Lumia 928 is officially coming to Verizon on May 16. The phone was already leaked earlier this week, thanks to an ad in Vanity Fair, but now the release date -- and carrier -- is official. The Lumia 928 is the latest flagship phone in Nokia...

On Tuesday, Nokia chief Stephen Elop fielded questions from irate shareholders at his company’s annual meeting in Helsinki. When, they wanted to know, would he do something about Apple and Samsung? In London next week, Nokia will announce its new hig...

The Nokia Lumia 928 has been rumored for a while, but now it's been officially confirmed, first by a two-page ad in Vanity Fair, then by a product page on Nokia's website. Ironically, the product page is less informative than the ad. The page simply ...

Nokia teased a possible new QWERTY phone, coming later this week. The company said it would reveal "something new" early on Wednesday. The announcement, revealed on Nokia's Conversations blog, will come at 3 a.m. ET followed by an online Q&A with Nei...

On April 1, Nokia announced it's closing its flagship Nokia store in Shanghai, and this was no April Fools' joke. It’s the latest in a series of shutdowns of the phone-maker’s failing retail storefronts. The Shanghai store was its largest remaining s...

It's been quite a week for iPhone abuse. First, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins dismissed the device as out-of-date, then a video surfaced of Apple's new VP of technology Kevin Lynch running over the iPhone with a steamroller back in the day. The lates...

Nokia has sided with Apple in its request for a permanent injunction against several Samsung products, Reuters reports. The Finnish company has filed a brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday, supporting Apple's case. The brief is currently seal...

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